In more diet sensationalism, the National Enquirer has a fabulous cover this week, clutching its collective pearls over HOLLYWOOD'S DEADLIEST DIETS, including a full-body fatty picture of Beth Ditto with a black box over her face because their accusation of eating fried chicken and ice cream is just too shameful to look her in the face. What do all of the stars on the cover have in common? Every single one of them has a vagina.

What is it with the fascination with what women put in their mouths? Even the supposedly gender neutral (and seemingly dormant) website Celebrities Eating has women at the focus in 16 out of last 20 posts. And check out Buzzfeed's mention of this trend should be called "Female Celebrities Eating," because all 28 posts are about women. Rachel examined this sociological preoccupation with women and competitive eating, and I suspect this is tied to our preoccupation with looking at Heidi Klum bellying up to a plate of ribs. A recent Allure article has also noticed the trend:

Consider, for instance, two recent side-by-side entries on the "Gawker Stalker" celebrity sightings section of gawker.com, a media Web site: On the left was a caption about Saturday Night Live's Will Forte, "looking all scruffy (and dare I say hot?) with his brother eating lunch at Chino's." What was he eating? How was he eating it? Not germane. And on the right was an entry about publicist Lizzie Grubman dining at Da Silvano: "She didn't order any appetizer and was picking at her seared tuna, wouldn't touch the potatoes on the plate."

I don't know if I blame the magazines for this one. After all, the National Enquirer bases its cover story and pictures on what will sell the most copies. For instance, earlier this month, their story on stars with eating disorders (I know, I know) did actually discuss men with alleged eating disorders, but the cover was all about the lovely lady lumps. They really don't care whether they're putting women on the cover or pictures of daisies and lilacs, it's all about the bank and the bottom line. And what interests the average reader is knowing, in great detail, what is or is not going into the mouth of their favorite female celebrity, even if it's entirely made up, like the Chow Like Cho diet.

Interestingly, Margaret Cho has decided to just go with her natural instincts when it comes to food and refuses to listen to the messages coming from the media. She may be "just a comedian," but she also just might be a body image revolutionary. What would happen if we all did that?